Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms Global Perspectives

<p>Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world. Although such harms have been studied from both legal and social science perspectives these disciplinary-specific approaches are not on their own fully able to address the complexity these environmental challenges. This edited collection forges an innovative socio-legal approach to more effectively respond to and to prevent environmental harms around the world. Integrating theoretical and empirical work the book presents carefully-selected illustrations of how legal and social science scholarship can be brought together to improve policies. The various chapters examine how a socio-legal approach can ultimately lead to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental harms as well as to innovative and effective responses to such environmental offences. </p>